Biography

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis in 1994. During my PhD, I explored the use of software engineering paradigms in the field of structured document manipulation. I defined both a frame-based language for representing document models, and a system of context-aware document generation and configuration (cf. the research topic of language-based systems). In my thesis, I named this concept "context controlled document".

From 1995 to 1996, I continued my research on document manipulation in Paradocs, a startup company I launched. The aim of this work was to design a structured document editor that is as easy to use as a word processor.